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Car running on water?

I’ve heard about fuel cells that run on the energy release when hydrogen and oxygen bind in to water. And where you still need energy up front to split the water into these two components.

But Eduard Povel pointed me to ”'[http://www.byronnewenergy.com/ Byron New Energy]”’, also using water, but ‘cosmic charged water’, delivering [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion perpetual motion] that may well solve our hunger for energy.

Interesting. Will dive into it.

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Co-creation: whoever has the smartest customers wins

Do consumer driven innovation, customer care and Wikinomics work? Well, at Procter & Gamble they do. Read CIO Magazine on Wikinomics.

I’m a ”’big big fan of co-creation”’ and it’s been like this ever since the great Internet technologies like mail, the web and [http://java.net Java] emerged. [http://kk.org Kevin Kelly] already wrote about it when he says: “And whoever has the smartest customers wins in his book New Rules for the New Economy.

Kelly’s strategies:

  • Make customers as smart as you are.
  • Connect customers to customers.
  • All things being equal, choose technology that connects.
  • Imagine your customers as employees.
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Spin—an efficient verification system for distributed software systems

Spin—an efficient verification system for distributed software systems. Spin is a popular open-source software tool, used by thousands of people worldwide, that can be used for the ”’formal verification of distributed software systems”’. The tool was developed at Bell Labs in the original Unix group of the Computing Sciences Research Center, starting in 1980. The software has been available freely since 1991, and continues to evolve to keep pace with new developments in the field. In April 2002 the tool was awarded the prestigious System Software Award for 2001 by the ACM.

http://spinroot.com/

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10 Ways to Think about Innovation

What successful young technologists know.

Interesting few things about successful innovation by MIT’s Technology Review while posting their top 35 innovators under the age of 35 for 2006.

Read the summary on 10 Ways to Think about Innovation.